Fighters from an ethnic minority group pressed their assault on security forces in Myanmar’s Rakhine state for a second day yesterday, a spokesman said, as an offensive against the military widens across the country.

Images of faces generated by artificial intelligence (AI) can now appear more real than pictures of real people -- as long as they are white, a study said on Monday.

Former US president Donald Trump faced a furious backlash Monday over Veteran’s Day weekend remarks branding his political opponents “vermin,” as leading scholars and President Joe Biden accused him of parroting Hitler and Mussolini.

Iranian authorities have launched a new wave of arrests targeting members of the Bahai faith, the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, representatives of the community said yesterday.

The White House said on Monday President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will discuss strengthening communication and managing competition when they meet on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit this week.

The world is “failing to get a grip” on climate change, the UN warned yesterday, as an assessment of current climate pledges shows only minor progress on reducing emissions this decade.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday moved to address rising criticism within the State Department ranks over the Biden administration’s policy on the Israel-Hamas war, as hundreds of US government employees openly and privately have advocated for a ceasefire in Gaza.

The world is "failing to get a grip" on climate change, the UN warned Tuesday, as an assessment of current climate pledges shows only minor progress on reducing emissions this decade

Protests and public demonstrations — both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel — have rippled around the world over the war in Gaza, data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) shows, with fighting unabated in the sixth week since the deadly Hamas attacks on Israel

The armed wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Monday it told Qatari mediators the group was ready to release up to 70 women and children held in Gaza in return for a five-day truce with Israel

US President Joe Biden urged Israel on Monday to protect Gaza's main hospital as heavy fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas raged around the complex

Myanmar's junta has imposed a curfew in the western city of Sittwe, according to a government document and media reports, amid a surge in fighting on several fronts between the military and ethnic minority insurgent groups

Russian forces have killed 34 fighters and wounded more than 60 in air strikes on targets in Syria’s Idlib governorate, Russia’s Interfax reported late on Sunday, citing deputy head of Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria.

On foot, by horse-drawn cart and clinging to the sides of overcrowded trucks, Palestinians fled southwards through Gaza to escape Israeli air strikes, telling of their fear, despair and bitter sense of abandonment.

Israeli tanks took up positions at the gates of Gaza City’s main hospital yesterday, the primary target in their battle to seize control of the northern half of the Gaza Strip, where medics said patients including newborns were dying for lack of fuel.

More children in South Asia are struggling due to severe water scarcity made worse by the impacts of climate change than anywhere else worldwide, the United Nations said yesterday.

An internal US State Department dissent memo accused President Joe Biden of “spreading misinformation” about Israel’s war against Hamas, according to Axios.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak brought back former leader David Cameron as foreign minister yesterday in a reshuffle triggered by his firing of interior minister Suella Braverman after her criticism of the police threatened his authority.

The popular video-sharing platform, which has around one billion monthly users, has faced restrictions in many countries for allegedly breaking data rules and for its potential harmful impact on youth

A premature baby and two patients have died in Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital, the Hamas-run health ministry said Monday, as the facility suffered fuel shortages amid intense fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants